Natural experiments : ecosystem-based management and the environment / Judith A. Layzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Layzer, Judith A.

Series:

American and comparative environmental policy.

American and comparative environmental policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecosystem management.

Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This systematic assessment of seven prominent initiatives - in Texas, California, Florida and Arizona - evaluates the effectiveness of ecosystem-based management at protecting the environment. The author concludes that projects that set goals based on stakeholder collaboration are less likely to result in environmental improvement.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Series Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Why Ecosystem-Based Management?

3 Setting Aside Habitat for Songbirds, Salamanders, and Spiders in Austin, Texas

4 Saving San Diego's Coastal Sage Scrub

5 Restoring South Florida's River of Grass

6 Averting Ecological Collapse in California's Bay-Delta

7 Conserving the Sonoran Desert in Pima County, Arizona

8 Re-creating Central Florida's Meandering Kissimmee River

9 Making History in the Mono Basin

10 Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-351) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-27801-4

1-4356-6536-8

OCLC:

646757754